14 DAY TRIAL // Canonical's Joseph Salisbury reported the summary of the Ubuntu Kernel Team meeting that took place on August 4, 2015, on the official IRC channels of the project.
According to Mr. Salisbury, the Ubuntu Kernel Team managed to rebase the master-next branch of the anticipated Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) operating system on the upstream Linux 4.2 RC5 kernel, which was just announced by Linus Torvalds this past weekend.
"We have rebased our Wily master-next branch to the latest upstream v4.2-rc5 and uploaded to our ~canonical-kernel-team PPA. We are resolving fallout from DKMS packages at this time before we proceed uploading to the archive," says Joseph Salisbury.
Therefore, we can only assume that the final release of the Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) operating system, due for release on October 22, 2015, will be based on the Linux 4.2 kernel series. At the moment, the OS is based on a kernel from the Linux 4.1 LTS series.
Ubuntu 15.10 is currently in development and the Final Beta build will be ready for download and testing on September 24, 2015. We will keep you informed about any further development in this regard, as soon as we have more news from Canonical's Ubuntu Kernel Team.